Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(1) For paragraph 141(1)(c) of the Act, the prescribed period for an application for a standard patent is:
(a) 3 weeks before the date on which a notice is due to be published in the Official Journal under section 54 of the Act in respect of the specification; or
(b) 3 weeks before the date on which a notice of acceptance is due to be published in the Official Journal under paragraph 49(5)(b) of the Act.
(2) Subregulation (1) does not apply if an order made under subsection 152(3) or 173(1) of the Act is in force.